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Poison Center
Director & Medical Directors
The clinical and medical directors are responsible for
ensuring that:
The WVPC Clinical and Medical Directors
• There is 24 hour a day availability of clinical and
are the only board certified clinical and
medical toxicology consultative services for health
medical toxicologists in West Virginia. The
care professionals and WVPC Poison Specialists.
Lead Medical Director and back-up medical
directors are also board certified in • All recommendations provided by the WVPC are
based on the best, current, evidence-based practice
emergency medicine.
• Health care professional education in clinical/
medical toxicology in WV is provided.
Health Professional Education
Supervised experience in the WV Poison Center:
Doctor of Pharmacy Students (5 weeks each) 6
Number of academic, continuing education (CE) presentations 11
Number of toxicology lectures given (3rd year medical students) 5
Hours of didactic/laboratory instruction WVU School of Pharmacy 42
National meeting presentations 1
Hours of didactic instruction for other institutions 2
Hours of emergency medicine resident instruction 6
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